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Sustainable bond issuance sets fresh record
24 August 20212021 sustainable bond issuance has already surpassed the record-breaking 2020 total, supported by rising interest in sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds from corporate issuers. Ahren Lester reports
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Sustainability-linked bonds: One year after the principles - where to next?
10 August 2021Amid ongoing innovation and accelerating growth in 2021, where should the sustainability-linked bond market look next? Ahren Lester reports
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Green Bond Comment, August 2021: A new dawn for the beleaguered transition bond label?
04 August 2021Once seen as the next exciting frontier in sustainable fixed income, the take-up of transition bonds has so far underwhelmed the market. But could the beleaguered label stage a fight back, asks Ahren Lester
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Sustainability-linked bonds: One year after the principles - Part 1
13 July 2021One year after the Sustainability Linked Bond Principles were published, the target-based fixed income instrument is seeing issuance accelerate. Market participants warn, however, that some current issues lack substance. Ahren Lester reports
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Green Bond Comment, July 2021: Should sovereigns choose sustainability-linked over green bonds?
07 July 2021Sovereign issuance is a key component of the sustainable bond market, but Ahren Lester asks why no country has yet taken the sustainability-linked bond route
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Databases and regulation driving standardisation of labelled bond data
02 July 2021Efforts to standardise green, social and sustainability bond impact data are gaining traction, but widespread comparability remains elusive, an Environmental Finance webinar heard. Michael Hurley reports
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Sustainability-linked debt: the risk of ESG-washing
21 June 2021Sustainability-linked loans and bonds may have different sustainability performance targets and pricing mechanisms from one another, but innovative new pricing structures may increase the risk of 'ESG-washing' across the whole asset class, Lori Shapiro writes
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Green Bond Principles tightens 'key' recommendations to reflect market best practice
10 June 2021Three years after the last update, the widely adopted Green Bond Principles has received a raft of updates to bring it in line with the developing best practice in the global sustainable bond market. Ahren Lester reports
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Green bond comment, June 2021: Are oil and gas firms still locked out of the sustainable bond market?
02 June 2021The labelled bond market needs to start helping dirty issuers finance the transition, argues Peter Cripps
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ESG 'rapidly evolving' in cat bond market despite lack of deals
10 May 2021Willis Re Securities' Quentin Perrot tells Ahren Lester that 2021 could finally see the emergence of ESG-labelled cat bonds, as the insurance-linked security market increasingly takes its potential seriously